Advances in Data, Methods, Models and Their Applications in Geoscience

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as a GIS product specialist for two years. Her research interests focus mainly on understanding and modeling of interactions between human activities and physical environment by using geographic information science, remote sensing, spatial analysis and modeling technologies. She has worked on more than twenty funded environmental-and health-related research projects, and published over fifty journal articles and book chapters. Prof. Chen has received research awards from American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,

Cyclic and Fatigue Behaviour of Rock Materials: Review, Interpretation and Research Perspectives

“…Investigations on this topic are still ongoing to improve rock-cutting (Ghamgosar et al 2017) or hydraulic fracturing (Zang et al 2013) technologies. Further research works are devoted to protect against environmental threats: designing tunnels against earthquakes (Hashash et al 2001), forecasting volcanic hazard (Kendrick et al 2013;Heimisson et al 2015), assessing the freeze-thaw cycles on tunnels built in hostile cold regions (Zhang et al 2004;Liu et al 2015), studying the ageing of pillars due to variations of water table level (Sorgi and De Gennaro 2011) or estimating the long-term stability of old monuments (Cattaneo and Labuz 2001;Jamshidi et al 2013) or buildings (Hale and Shakoor 2003) against weathering. Oil and gas storage, mainly in salt mines, is another application where cyclic loading is imposed to the environment by human activities by successive emptying and filling (Cosenza et al 1999;Wang et al 2015;Voznesenskii et al 2017).…”